This so-called Mooc - a "massive open online course" - has its biggest audience in the Middle East.Simon Nelson, FutureLearn's chief executive said it showed the demand for English and scale of online learning.There
is an "enormous market" for learning English, said Mr Nelson, who
predicted there would be even bigger numbers for such online courses.

Global appeal FutureLearn's
course, aimed at students preparing for the English language
proficiency test IELTS, has more students than a course previously
claimed as the biggest, a social psychology course from Wesleyan
University in the US, which had 260,000 student.

Mr Nelson said that online learning was not only about a "volume
game", but the figures showed what was possible when courses were
available "unimpeded by geography".

The six-week course,
Understanding IELTS: Techniques for English Language Tests, has students
from 153 countries, with the biggest number from the Middle East, Asia
and Latin America.

The most typical profile for a student was a young woman in full-time work.Read more..

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